Halloween events

Saturday

Oct 30, 2010 at 3:15 AM

ELIOT, Maine — The annual Eliot Halloween party and haunted trail will be held Friday, Oct. 29 at the Eliot Elementary School from 5:30-6:45 p.m. for children in kindergarten and younger and from 7-8:15 p.m. for children in first-third grades. For children in fourth-eighth grades, the haunted trail will be open from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The party will include games, refreshments and a costume contest. Prizes will be awarded for the best costume in each age group, including adults. The party will also feature a walk through the haunted woods behind the school.

The event is free to Eliot residents; however, a donation of $1 per person or $5 per family is suggested. The organization also will be collecting canned or nonperishable goods to donate to Foot Prints Food Pantry for the coming holiday season. For more information, cal the Eliot Community Service Department at 207-439-6892 or visit www.eliotcsd.com.

DOVER — For families with young children, the Children's Museum of New Hampshire is hosting the Not-So-Spooky Spectacular on Saturday, Oct. 30 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Highlights include:

— Nonfood trick or treating throughout the museum from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

— Touring the museum's decorated 'bat cave' from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and receiving a small prize from a costumed character

PORTSMOUTH — The Fox Run Mall will celebrate Halloween on Sunday, Oct. 31 with mallwide trick or treating from 2-4 p.m. As many as 3,000 costumed children are expected to take part in the celebration, going store to store collecting treats. Participating retailers will post orange pumpkin faces on their storefronts. For more information, call 603-431-5911.

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Saturday, Oct. 30, Haunted walk and carved pumpkin contest, 5:30-8:30 p.m., South Berwick Public Library, 37 Portland St. Drop off pre-carved pumpkins on the library back porch by 5:30 p.m. Admission by donation to benefit the Friends of the Library Building Fund.

SOMERSWORTH — Knights of Columbus, Council 2078, is sponsoring a "Pumpkin Patch" at 404 High St., Somersworth, on the Holy Trinity Church grounds. Pumpkins of all sizes as well as some decorative gourds, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Cash raffle prizes.